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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 03 18 1973 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory at 35 North Park Street. |
| Date: | 10 03 1976 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory, a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Cadwallader C. Washburn, on Observatory Hill overlooking Lake Mendota,... |
| Date: | 06 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 06 17 1947 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards open dome as Olin Eggen, research astronomer, looks through the telescope at Washburn Observatory on the campus of University of Wi... |
| Date: | 08 13 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Chinook," an underground newspaper, featuring an ethereal drawing of a male hiker holding out a sign with an infinity symbol on it, as though he ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The telescope inside the dome at Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 09 14 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a cutaway model of an Apollo rocket. Behind him on a wall are portraits of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. |
| Date: | 10 23 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a model of a missile. Near him on the desk are an American Flag and a globe. |
| Date: | 10 24 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a model of a missile pointed at a map of Cuba. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Artist's illustration of a beryllium container built by the Solar Division of International Harvester. The container was intended to be used as a power sou... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Diagram showing components built for NASA's Apollo and Saturn programs by the Solar Division of International Harvester. Text reads: "Solar-built component... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An Apollo 12 astronaut and lunar landing module on the moon's surface. The beryllium container in the foreground was built by the Solar Division of Interna... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | NASA towboat, the "Clermont", pulling a liquid oxygen tank in the canal system of the Mississippi Test Support Department. Original caption reads (in part)... |
| Date: | 08 22 1961 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke, program director of the astronautics division of General Dynamics Corporation. He spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater t... |
| Date: | 12 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Professor Verner Suomi of the University of Wisconsin meteorology department and leader of a university team building one of the U.S. satellites, is shown ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1969 |
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| Description: | James Kitchell with a small and large model. Caption reads: "MOON SHIP MODEL — James W. Kitchell, executive producer of NB News' color television coverage ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Tinius Olsen Automatic Balance Correcting Machine for Engine Crankshafts." |
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